Dr. Williams received his B.Sc. in civil engineering at University of Vermont, his M.Sc. in civil engineering at Purdue University, and his Ph.D. in civil engineering at Purdue University. He is a materials engineer at the Center for Transportation Research and Education. He specializes in asphalt pavement materials. He joined CTRE in August 2005, sharing a joint appointment with Iowa State University’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering as an associate professor.  Additional roles at CTRE and/or Iowa State University are that he is an Associate Professor, Department of Civil , Construction, and Environmental  Engineering

Xiuzhi Susan Sun is a professor in the Biobased Materials and Technology Lab in the department of Grain Science and Industry and the director of the Center for Biobased Polymers By Design, both at Kansas State University. Sun received her BS and MS in Agricultural Engineering at Northeast Agricultural University in China, and her PhD in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana. Her research interests include plant proteins extraction and modification, polypeptides and protein structures and adhesion, protein latex adhesives, poly(lactic acids) and sugar based thermoplastics compounding and synthesis, bionanocomposites, thermodynamics and rheological properties of biobased polymers.                                                        

Stephen Myers is Assistant Director of Ohio State University's Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. He previously served as Chair of the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science. In 2005, he was named Director of the Ohio BioProducts Innovation Center (OBIC), a venture newly-funded by Ohio's Third Frontier Program which integrates academia and industry towards development of renewable specialty chemicals, polymers/plastics and advanced materials. Operating on a market-pull business model, this research and commercialization alliance is designed to link genetics, biotechnology, chemical conversion, material applications and product development towards commercialization of bioproducts which represents a value proposition to industry alliance members. OBIC builds on the strength of Ohio's two largest industries, agriculture and the chemicals, plastics and rubber materials sector. Industry-led initiatives leverage significant core research capabilities within the private and public sector including Battelle, Ohio State University, University of Akron, as well as associated federal labs.